"On his website, antizionist.net, Ramsi Woodcock asks fellow legal scholars to sign a "Petition for Military Action Against Israel." He says Israel is a colony and war is needed to decolonize, and he calls for the war to continue until "Israel has submitted permanently and unconditionally to the government of Palestine everywhere from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.""
"In his lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Woodcock asks a judge to order the university and top officials to restore his normal teaching and other duties, allow him back into the College of Law building, end the university's investigation of him, and pay monetary damages. But he also asks the judge to order Education Secretary Linda McMahon to "refrain from requiring or using" the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism."
"The IHRA says antisemitism "might include the targeting of the state of Israel," "comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis" or claims "that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor." Earlier this year, Kentucky state lawmakers ordered public universities to use the IHRA definition in their policies combating antisemitism. Woodcock is also asking the judge to declare that that order violates the First Amendment."
Ramsi Woodcock runs antizionist.net and asks legal scholars to sign a "Petition for Military Action Against Israel," saying Israel is a colony and calling for war until Israel submits permanently to the government of Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. He sued the University of Kentucky and Education Secretary Linda McMahon in federal court seeking restoration of teaching duties, access to the College of Law, an end to the university investigation, and monetary damages. He also asks the court to bar use of the IHRA antisemitism definition in enforcing Title VI and to strike down a state mandate requiring universities to adopt that definition as unconstitutional under the First Amendment, alleging federal pressure and state action prompted his suspension in summer 2025.
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